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Gorgias's Modern Muslim World
This series covers all fields of inquiry—sociocultural, political, legal, religious, scientific, and literary—that concern Muslims across the world during the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Monographs and edited volumes are welcome; dissertations must be thoroughly revised before submission. The preferred language of the series is English.
Series Editors
Nelly van Doorn-Harder and Joas Wagemakers
Advisory Board
Khaled M. Abou El Fadl Marcia Hermansen
Marwa Elshakry Ebrahim Moosa
Mary Beinecke Elston Aslı Niyazioğlu
To submit a book proposal to the series, please contact submissions@gorgiaspress.com
Pluralism and Plurality in Islamic Legal Scholarship
The Case of the Fatāwā l-ʿĀlamgīrīya
Series: Gorgias's Modern Muslim World 11
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4231-2
This book presents the positions held by ḥanafite Muslim jurists in South Asia in the 17th century with regard to the coexistence of Muslims and non-Muslims, and, secondly, compares the opinions put forth by these South Asian jurists with those maintained by their counterparts in Central Asia and the Middle East.
$114.95 (USD)
The Many Faces of Iranian Modernity
Sufism and Subjectivity in the Safavid and Qajar Periods
By Robert Ames
Series: Gorgias's Modern Muslim World 8
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4237-4
This study into both reformism and mysticism demonstrates both that mystical rhetoric appeared regularly in supposedly anti-mystical modernist writing and that nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sufis actually addressed questions of intellectual and political reform in their writing, despite the common assertion that they were irrationally traditional and politically quietist.
$106.00 (USD)
Intellectual Currents and the Practice of Engagement
Ottoman and Algerian Writers in a Francophone Milieu, 1890-1914
Series: Gorgias's Modern Muslim World 9
ISBN: 978-1-4632-4239-8
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a great increase in the use of the printed word and the press by non-European actors to express and disseminate ideas and to participate in the intellectual life of both their home societies and a wider international context. This book examines the French-language writings of Ottoman and Algerian writers between 1890 and 1914.
$106.00 (USD)